1896 Birthday of , Broadway star of musicals and plays including , , , and .
1949 Broadway premiere of 's opera , based on 's . It runs 56 performances at the 46th Street Theatre.
1956 stars in the title role of ' , opening at the Broadhurst Theatre for a 639-performance run. The saga of a boy sent to live with his devil-may-care aunt later serves as the basis for the musical .
1957 and play sultry lovers in the musical by and . It runs 555 performances at the Imperial Theatre.
1957 Birthday of , Broadway's top romantic leading man in musicals of the late 1990s onward. Starring roles include ; ; ; ; ; ; and 's drama, . He is named one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" by People magazine.
1967 Although never wanted his 1939 play, , to be produced, it opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. The cast, which includes , , and , is directed by . The show runs 142 performances. A controversial revival of the show is done in October 1997 at by Dutch director .
1971 The first Broadway revival of , , and 's 1944 musical opens at the Imperial Theatre. The cast includes , , and . It runs only 73 performances.
1972 's play about a professor losing his wife, homosexual male lover, and sobriety, , opens at the Morosco Theatre. wins a Tony Award for his starring role in the -directed production, which runs 135 performances. A of the play stars .
1982 An announcement is made by the League of New York Theatres and Producers that at least 14 shows produced on Broadway this season are financed by movie companies.
1988 , star of theatre, radio, film, and television, dies at age 86. He was one of the founders of the Voice of America in World War II, and, with , the Mercury Theatre of the Air, best remembered for its 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, a mock documentary about a Martian invasion which some listeners mistook for a real news broadcast. Houseman is also remembered for the Academy Award he won for playing Professor Kingsfield in the film The Paper Chase in 1973, a role he repeated in the TV series.
1991 dies after a battle with cancer. A producer and activist, Papp started (now the Joseph Papp Public Theater), through which he nurtured unknowns such as , , Thomas Babe, , , , , Robert Alan Ackerman, , and Carson Kievman. Major productions include and . He was 70.
1991 's The Ride Down Mount Morgan opens at London's Wyndham Theatre. It is the first time a Miller play has debuted outside of the U.S. plays a man with two wives who, when convalescing after an auto accident, is forced to confront his selfishness and his choices. A production of the comedy-drama, starring and , comes to Off-Broadway's Public Theater in 1999 and then the following year.
2002 makes her Broadway playwriting debut with her autobiographical , co-written with her daughter, , who died during the show's tryout. wins a Tony Award playing the role based on Burnett's mother, but the show runs just 76 performances at the Cort Theatre.
2010 , the and musical that takes the racially insensitive "minstrel show" of yore and reimagines it to tell the true story of a case of racial injustice, opens at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. Directed by and with a libretto by , the musical tells the tale of a group of young men who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931. Despite running only 49 performances, the production is nominated for 12 Tony Awards.
2012 After three days of canceled performances due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, most Broadway shows resume. With New York's public transportation system still largely crippled by the storm, some actors are reported to have walked for hours to reach their theatres.
2014 returns to Broadway in 's , opening at Circle in the Square. and co-star in the mysterious drama about a man who brings his new girlfriend to a remote cabin for a night of trout-fishing.
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